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English botanist and translator (1825–1874) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frances Harriet Hooker (née Henslow; 30 April 1825 – 13 November 1874) was an English botanist.
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Born | Frances Harriet Henslow 30 April 1825 Cambridge, England |
Died | 13 November 1874 49) Kew, Surrey, England | (aged
Spouse | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
In 1872, she translated A General System of Botany, Descriptive and Analytical by Emmanuel Le Maout and Joseph Decaisne into English from the original French.[1]
The daughter of Reverend John Stevens Henslow, a botany professor at the University of Cambridge,[2] she was born Frances Harriet Henslow in Cambridge.[3]
In 1851, she married Joseph Dalton Hooker;[4] the couple had four sons and three daughters.[2] Her daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer was a botanical illustrator;[5] her son, Reginald, was a statistician.
Frances Harriet Hooker died in Kew, aged 49, on 13 November 1874.[3]
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